I wonder to what extent domestic cozy is an artifact of rent being too high compared to other stuff you can buy. The opposite syndrome of being “house poor” (you blew all your money on a house and have no money for furniture, in a “buy more house than you think you need” world)
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You’re either cramped in a nice but tiny place without room for all the stuff you want/can afford, or in a larger but more decrepit space that needs... a lot of padding to be livable.
Opposite of house poor is... stuff-rich?
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Domestic cozy is somewhere between empty mansion and overfull homeless tent.
2x2:
Overfull, oversized = billionaire
Overfull, undersized = domestic cozy (stuff rich)
Underfull, oversized = premium mediocre (house poor)
Underfull, undersized = starter homeless
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I’m *very* domestic cozy right now. Stuff from last 1100 sq ft apartment shoved into 650 sq ft. 😆
2 apartments ago I was in a larger 2 bedroom slumlord apartment maybe 1200 sq ft where we bought some extra stuff to make it more bearable.
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Do you have enough space to do yoga without bumping into walls or furniture? That's my definition of the space vs stuff ratio one needs.
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Not quite. Usually need to move some stuff around.
But otoh nice gym in building

